Identify each one with one of the following words or phrases.

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Below are 18 typical extracts from different parts of a newspaper.

Choose the right answer.

1. Jimmy is the ….. critic of the local newspaper.

a) lettered b) literal c) literary d) literate

2. There are five mistakes in this picture. Can you find them?

a) deliberate b) instrumental c) intensive d) presumptuous

3. What was the ….. of that article on Romania? I haven't had time to read it.

a) digest b) draft c) gist d) synopsis

4. The information was ….. to the press before it was officially announced.

a) dripped b) dropped c) leaked d) seeped

5. Many of the new newspapers have a pronounced right-wing ….. .

a) balance b) bearing c) bias d) setting

6. An advertising ….. should be short, striking and easily remembered.

a) caption b) epigram c) motto d) slogan

7. He ….. the newspaper in the hope of finding news of his daughter.

a) glanced b) glimpsed c) observed d) scanned

8. He was angry because of the many ….. of his privacy by journalists.

a) infiltrations b) interferences c) interruptions d) invasions

9 She used her weekly column in the local newspaper as a ….. for her political views.

a) means b) passage c) vehicle d) vessel

10. This paper intends to ….. fearlessly all forms of corruption in public life.

a) expose b) present c) uncover d) unveil

& 20. Newspaper Parts

(a) The word is that Clinton Ross, 32, playboy son of US steel billionaire Dwight Ross, has left his girlfriend, actress Lee-Ann Van Post, 26, and is now in Europe.

(b) Prince Edward (left) enjoys a joke with actor Sam Cool (centre).

(c)PREMIER TO PROBE RIDDLE OF 'SPIES IN MINISTRY'

(d) He received a number of international literary awards, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He leaves a widow and two sons.

(e) Today is a good day to do business but a bad one for romance. Don't take members of the opposite sex too seriously today.

(f) Our front page today gives details of the government's new economic
proposals. Our readers may think, as we do, that these measures are too little and too late. We say to the government, not for the first time, it is

time ...

(g) Mix two egg yolks with butter in a frying-pan over a low gas. Add sugar and then...

(h) A pair of silver George II candlesticks fetched £17,000. Bidding was slow for Victorian oil paintings but a landscape by Somers went for £55,000.

(i) Robson equalised with a header from five yards just before the half-time whistle.

(j) The cheapest bucket-shop air-return to Hong Kong is now about £480 and Hong Kong is a good base to visit Macao, China and Taiwan. The best season is …

(k) Mr Richard Caulder (West Hull, Labour) asked if the Minister of Transport could inform MPs of train-fare concessions for pensioners. However, the Speaker declared that...

(l) Now is the time to plant roses. Put trees in at least 2' apart, and cover roots with 6" of soil.

(m) A hard-hitting documentary series starts tonight at 10 p.m. Viewers might be shocked at scenes of...

(n) Road holding and fuel consumption are good but otherwise the performance lacks zip.

? 21. Express your opinion about the news coverage in your favourite newspaper.